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How to join a Windows 2008 server to a windows 2003 domain / controller over a site-2-site VPN connection?

Hello,
I need to join a Windows server 2008 currently a member of Work group in our data center to my domain. We have a site-2-site vpn tunnel. I can ping the server from my domain controller and the server in work group can ping the domain controller. When I try to join the server in the work group I am receiving this message:
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The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller for domain nexxofinancial.local:
The error was: "This operation returned because the timeout period expired."
(error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)
The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.xxxx.local
The DNS servers used by this computer for name resolution are not responding. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the following IP addresses:
xx.3.1.xx
1xx.1xx.0.xxx
Verify that this computer is connected to the network, that these are the correct DNS server IP addresses, and that at least one of the DNS servers is running.*******

Any idea as to what the problem could be?
Thank you.

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emilgas,

The server 2008 in the work-group has static ip and the primary DNS is set to the ip address of the Windows 2003 domain controller. That is what is so strange about the error message.
 
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What are the IP segments on each side?
Trying to make sure you do not have an IP overlap or identical IPs used at both locations (covering the mundane just in case).
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The issue was the firewall ports once the required ports were opened I was able to add the server t the domain
Thank you all for your help
Much appreciated
Sometimes you just need a little bit of help to get your thinking going.
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a little more work was required to make things to work